GI anthrax: Report of one case confirmed with autopsy

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Mansour Ghanaei, Faribourz ^a   Zareh, Shahab ^a   Salimi, Arezoo ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Bacillus anthraces; Human anthrax

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAMNESIS; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CASE REPORT; CONTAMINATION; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INGESTION; MALE; MEAT; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SHEEP; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOTERRORISM; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; SPLEEN; STOMACH;

EID: 17044456052     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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